What would that next level be?
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What would that next level be?
No need to put the fertilized egg into a woman's womb. A Borg child would be brought to term completely in an artificial one, which would probably be one of a countless number in just a single cube ship.
Yes, that's called ectogenesis.
The first so-called test tube baby was Louise Brown in 1978.
See "replicative fading" from the TNG episode, 'Up the Long Ladder". Replicate the same clone enough times degrades viability.
It would have been just as easy to harvest ovaries and testes from new assimilatees to use later to incubate new drones. They could have experimented to see which types of species hybrids made the best drones..
It makes you wonder why the Borg would even need to assimilate new people anymore. I mean if they had all these possibilities to home-grow new Borg, it seems a much safer and surer way to maintain their population.
The Borg are always looking for new things to add into their mix. In a way, the Federation does the same thing, but gives civilizations they deem worthy of joining them a choice and the right to keep their culture (and their homeworld) intact if they do join.
True... but the thing we are missing with expecting/hypothesizing that the Borg could make their own drones via cloning, genetic manipulation, etc, is that if you don't assimilate whole populations, with culture, and history, genetic diversity, and all that... then there is NO "your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own". Because there isn't any. All drones would become a typical, template based DNA mash up of part Klingon, part Human, part Vulcan, part whatever other alien species gave a biological advantage.
There is nothing to be gained except population expansion for the Borg in this scenario.
I imagine the Borg do all these things to increase their numbers, rather than limiting themselves to a single method.
I'd imagine that during times of great loss, as during the war with Species 8472, they likely relied heavily on various incubation methods, as that incurred the least risk for them. I imagine that there's a lot of incubation going on in those places where lots of cubes are gathered together where they're not confronting other species.
I'd imagine that during times of great loss, as during the war with Species 8472, they likely relied heavily on various incubation methods, as that incurred the least risk for them. I imagine that there's a lot of incubation going on in those places where lots of cubes are gathered together where they're not confronting other species.
^ I'm picturing egg-shaped Borg ships now....
I thought you'd be picturing borg cubes humping each other....
That might be an unfortunate sign that Ork had been assimilated by the 24th century....^ I'm picturing egg-shaped Borg ships now....
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